Still trying to figure out how to post on this new system.
Today is
Chemists Celebrate The Earth Day -- promoting public awareness of the important contribution of chemists
Earth Day
Festival of Jupiter and Juno -- Ancient Roman Calendar
Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day
International Mother Earth Day -- UN
Lela's Holiday -- Slavic Pagan Calendar
National Jelly Bean Day
St. Epipodius of Lyon's Day (Patron of bachelors, betrayal victims, torture victims)
Walpurgis celebrations begin -- through May 1, Norse Calendar
World Week for Animals in Laboratories begins
Birthdays Today:
Daniel Johns, 1979
Kim Elizabeth, 1978
Peter Frampton, 1950
John Waters, 1946
Jack Nicholson, 1937
Glen Campbell, 1936
Aaron Spelling, 1928
Yehudi Menuhin, 1916
Eddie Albert, 1906
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, 1891
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 1870
Immanuel Kant, 1724
Queen Isabella, 1451
Today in History:
Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil, 1500
President George Washington attends a performance of Rickett's, the first circus in the US, 1793
Thomas Stevens sets out from San Francisco on the first round the world journey by bicycle, 1884
The Oklahoma land rush begins at noon; thousands rush to claim land, and the towns of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed within hours with populations of over 10,000 each, 1889
Pravda begins publication in St. Petersburg, 1912
The Germans begin using poison chlorine gas as a chemical weapon, 1915
British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world, 1969
The first Earth Day is celebrated, 1970
The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. is dedicated, 1993
Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record, 2005
Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War, 2006
The Prettiest Babies In The World
2 hours ago
Enough to make you a proud Luddite, yes? Not real great with the navigation, but it does work, after a fashion...
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Cat, not sure how proud, i've ducked and run back to the old interface. Just hope they don't eventually totally get rid of it.
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